This shows how when one has unrestricted access to other nations how we can overlook their shortcomings even at the expense of our own morals. The book also highlights the way the American government treated the Cubans in the same way they treated their own minority population. As a result of the thought process that the Blacks were bad, that affected many policies concerning the Cuban government. It is important to note that some time after Cuba gained its independence they had a high literacy rate, low infant mortality rate, relatively high income per capita. They were one of the leading countries in Latin America although compared to America their numbers were low.
In this part in particular, De La Fuente utilizes figures and solid facts to prove his claims, especially with his effective use of census records to show black flight from Cuba due to lack of opportunity (pg. 104). Speaking to social mobility and education, De La Fuente identifies the mediocrity of Cuban and American efforts to create a literate population. Although the government made significant strides to educate the populations, imperialist motivations fueled the system, which lacked secondary systems of support and training for Afro-Cubans. It is essential that De La Fuente identifies lack of labor opportunities and education in Cuba because both Afro-Cubans and white Cubans could eventually find solidarity in combatting these issues. Upon reading this chapter, De La Fuente’s revelation of a cyclical nature in Cuba with revolution and racism is uncovered.
Introduction: Cuba from 1959 was a Dictatorship under the control of Fidel Castro. Castro’s Cuba was a communist Cuba, he nationalised all the companies that America owned and made them Cuban, as well as finding friendship in the Soviet Union, leading to the Americans to enforce a trade embargo with hopes of it forcing Cuba into becoming a democracy and not a communist state which many believed to be the reason behind the Cuban Missile Crisis between America, Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1962. Fidel Castro’s rule started off in 1959 by benefitting the people; in the first years he increased the literacy rate to a state where illiteracy was virtually eradicated, he abolished legal discrimination, provided full employment, electricity to the
After becoming dependent on other failing nations to acquire the essentials for our country to become adequate, Cuba is stuck leading a nation to continued suffering. How are we, the citizens of Cuba, supposed to willing let corrupt leaders take advantage of us? We demand the right to free speech without punishment. We deserve the right to a fair trial. We require our basic human rights to be met.
Quiroz (2003) inspects the particular cycles, causal factors and long-haul expenses of authoritative debasement in Cuba amid the nineteenth century. The examination initially investigations the foundations of pioneer bureaucratic defilement in the early piece of the century when informal principles protecting unlawful slave exchange and other raucous follower transgressions vanquished past endeavors at authoritative change. His investigation depends on authentic in nature. He closed from the historical backdrop of Cuba that degenerate increased antagonistic to overall population intrigue was not a result of social constants, but rather of unreconstructed institutional imperfections and shortcomings. He features that the dangers of taking part in bureaucratic defilement lessened under the deliberate approving of regulatory deficiencies, tricky remittance of illicit slave trafficking, and a code of unlawful prizes expected by supporter authorities
Cuba V Australia There are many similarities between Australia and Cuba. Australia has a population of 23,993,700 and an area of 7,692,024 〖km〗^2, However Cuba has a population of 11,167,325 with an area of just 109,884〖km〗^2. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, although their political and economic freedom is not ranked highly, it is classified high in human development by the United Nations performing especially well in education and health. Australia, one of the wealthiest country’s in the world with a GDP of $1.525 trillion US, ranks highly in many of the international comparisons, especially quality of life, health and education. Material Living Standards: Material living standards in terms of wealth are better in Australia than Cuba.
Following the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in January of 1959, Fidel Castro began to implement his new vision for Cuba based on his communist ideals. By 1990, many felt that women’s positions had been bettered in terms of their lives. Still others commented that more had to be done to remove the remnants of patriarchy which still existed. Some, however, seem to offer a different account, highlighting how Castro’s Cuba had actually hampered both gender relations and family life.
On October 22nd, the authors of Cuba: It Matters: Negotiations in a Changing World, Jay Brickman and Maria Conchita Mendez, presented key points in their work and moderated a discussion on U.S.-Cuban relations and Cuban international policy, mainly in the sectors of trade. The book deals mostly with what needs to be done in order to advance U.S.-Cuban relations from their current standing and the benefits that could arise from a change in policy. Thought the entirety of the discussion was remarkable, two key points caught my attention, specifically due to their ties with what has been studied in this course over the last two months. The book’s authors are Brickman, a U.S.-born vice president of an American maritime trading company, and Mendez,
When Castro says “We have been witnesses, all of us Cubans, of every step taken by the revolution” unites the difficulty shared by the Cuban citizens as when Castro elaborates “Today’s parade shows us how much we have advanced. The workers now do not have to submit themselves to those trials; the workers now do not have to implore deaf executives,” conjures up a joyful excitement of hope for a brighter future. Castro is able to create this delighted feeling through his audience by providing powerful examples of how the Cuban life will change. Further, much of his onlookers are part of the larger working class who have been mistreated as specifying the “new
For instance, Cuba has been established as a dictatorship while Puerto Rico has been established as a republic. Under these conditions each of the countries have developed in complete different ways. For example, in Cuba, the citizens have had to live under the constant rules of their leader Fidel Castro. Castro used his power to create the structure of Cuba in the same structure as that of the Soviet Union, which in return caused him to lock up or execute anyone who went against what he said. Due to those reasons, Cuba 's economy was gravely wounded and the entire country was forced to grow under strained conditions,
Castro pushed education for his people to assist his aim in creating a well-rounded Cuba. In politically, economically, and socially declining environments, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro both gained power and attempted to bring the change the people so desperately
the right to have military bases in Cuba, the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and granted the U.S. concessions to agricultural lands, mines, and public utilities. Castro was infuriated by the U.S. exploitation of Cuba because he noticed that while U.S. corporations grew rich, the Cuban people lived without land to grow crops on, lived in poverty, suffered high unemployment rates, and paid high rents and utilities. In order to better the Cuban people’s lives Castro realized that he needed to break relations with the U.S. in order to nationalize the Cuban economy by taking back the telephone companies, reducing electricity rates, and instituting agrarian reforms. Castro’s speech at the U.N. shows that Castro was always angered at U.S. exploitation of the Cuban economy, which illustrates that Castro planned to nationalize the U.S. economy and sever relations with
Evidently, the United States saw Cuba as a place they could profit on, mainly in the form of their tobacco industry, and therefore treated its influential former citizens
Opponents argue that the embargo is only harming the people of Cuba rather than benefiting them and it does not affect the government as it intends. The Cuban people are simply isolated they lack the access to technology, medicine, affordable food and other goods. A report by the American Association for World Health found that doctors in Cuba have access to less than 50% of the drugs on the world market, and that food shortages led to a 33% drop in caloric intake between 1989 and 1993. The report stated, "It is our expert medical opinion that the US embargo has caused a significant rise in suffering-and even deaths-in Cuba." Proponents responded that the US is capable of only targeting the Cuban government and not to harm the people in
However, these can be addressed in more ways than one- the essential one being revolutionary spirit. This theme connects all of Castro’s decisions, and remains prevalent in contemporary Cuba’s culture. From naming of policies, down to how children start their days at school. It is evident that without the Cuban population’s support, there is no way that the fool who led the Moncada Barracks attack would’ve established a near forty-year long
